The international conference DROPPING, MAINTAINING AND BREAKING THE IRON CURTAIN: The Cold War and Central and Eastern Twenty Years Later will be held from 20 to 21 November 2009 in the Lichtenstein palace in Prague.

An extraordinary exhibition "Bartered Bride – Czech opera of Operas will be open to the public on 28 September 2009. The exhibition was arranged under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Jan Fischer in the framework of celebration of the Czech Statehood Day. It is a part of a joint project of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the National Theatre, the Czech Radio and the National Museum.

The performance of the opera Bartered Bride in the National Theatre and a special series of music recordings of that opera on the occasion celebration of the 10th Czech Statehood Day are organized under the auspices of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. The Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, as well as the Saint Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, belongs among Czech national giants. Concurrently an extraordinary exhibition Bartered Bride – the Czech Opera of Operas" will be opened to the general public. The exhibition has been prepared under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Fischer and it is a joint project of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the National Theatre, the Czech Radio and the National Museum.

Three-dimensional object will be placed for the long term in the Kramář's villa at the entrance to the villa. From there it can be seen by the public.
The exhibition includes also other author's objects which are placed in the exterior of the villa.

This exhibition of Czech revolution posters from November and December 1989 marks the upcoming 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Velvet Revolution, which led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.